The first table below looks at the demand for xDSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wolverhampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited xDSL over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Wolverhampton region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
xDSL
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing xDSL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wolverhampton - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £388
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Communications & Networking
Wolverhampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
3 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 9.677% 33.33% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £125 £150 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -42.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
xDSL
West Midlands

xDSL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing xDSL across the Wolverhampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Wolverhampton xDSL Jobs Demand Trend

xDSL
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton region citing xDSL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited xDSL.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) LAN
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
1 8 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 7 (87.50%) Terminal Services
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) DHCP
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Server
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft

xDSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton region citing xDSL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited xDSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) LAN
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
1 8 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) DHCP
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Analyst
1 8 (100.00%) Systems Analyst
2 7 (87.50%) Systems Support
3 4 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
1 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) Terminal Services
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft